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<h1>GFESuite Splash Screens</h1>
The GFESuite Splash Screens are a result of a nation-wide photo contest
in which weather service forecasters submitted entries and voted for
their favorites. The Winners (2 from each region -- except SR
where there was a tie) appear randomly 65% of the time.<br>
<br>
A group of Extra photos also appear 30% of the time weighted by the
votes they received.<br>
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There were so many excellent photos, that the developers chose another
set to appear randomly, the remaining 5% of the time.<br>
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Below you will find background information about each photo which
further enhances their beauty.<br>
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ENJOY!!<br>
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<h2>Winners<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa1.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">AR1: </span>Todd Foisy
-- Anchorage<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Chugach
Mountains near Girdwood, Alaska, Dec. 06. Girdwood is a quiet ski town
45 minutes southeast of Anchorage. I live in Girdwood and commute to
Anchorage. The Chugach Mountains here, including the ski area, average
around 700" of snow annually.<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa2.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">AR2: </span>Todd Foisy
-- Anchorage<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Northern
Prince William Sound and the Chugach Mountains, Feb. 07. This is where
all the cruise boats come in the summer to see glaciers calving.<br>
<h2><br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa3.gif"><br>
</h2>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Entry CR23:</span> Mike Umscheid, NWS
Dodge City
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location: </span>Taken in June 2006
on a storm chase in northeastern<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Colorado.
This high-based supercell revealed some amazing colors right<span
style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>at sunset, turning the whole
sky and foreground into an amazing<span style="font-family: monospace;">
</span>assortment of gold, orange, and violet hues. Near Yuma,
Colorado.<br>
<br>
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<b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa4.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR7:</span> Eric A.
Helgeson
Rapid City SD<b><br>
Location:</b> Clear night with full moon over Badlands National Park, SD<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa5.gif"><br>
</b><b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER6:</span> Rob
Radzanowski, WFO-State College
CTP<br>
<b>Location:</b> A great double rainbow over Mount Nittany from near
WFO-State College on Sept 29, 2006.<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa6.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER1: </span>Conor Lahiff<span
style="font-family: monospace;">,</span>WFO
Burlington, VT<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Mount
Mansfield in the spring, the highest peak in Vermont
<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa7.gif"><br>
</h2>
<span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><b>Entry</b> <span
style="font-weight: bold;">ER5:</span> Rob
Radzanowski, WFO-State College
CTP<br>
<b>Location:</b> Great mamatus clouds over Pittsburgh, PA in June 1998.
<br>
<br>
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<b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa8.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">PR1:</span> Andy Nash WFO
Burlington -- taken when at WFO Honolulu<br>
<b>Location:</b> Kilauea Lava at Night:&nbsp; Taken&nbsp; April 2003 on
the Big Island. The spots in the picture are rain drops. What you can't
hear is the amazing sizzling sound when the drops hit the hot lava.<br>
<b><br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa9.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">PR2:</span> Andy Nash WFO
Burlington -- taken when at WFO Honolulu<br>
<b>Location:</b> Hana Coast of Maui: Taken January 2006.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa10.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR2:</span> Julie States
SJT San Angelo TX<br>
<b>Location:</b> This photo of a LP Supercell was taken by myself from
the National Weather Service office in San Angelo, Texas&nbsp; late
afternoon/early evening&nbsp; on May 01, 2006, where I am a
forecaster.&nbsp;&nbsp; This storm was located&nbsp; over Coleman
county, Texas.&nbsp; In general the severe weather season in West
Central Texas is from the end of April thru the middle of June. This
storm was one of the first in what was a very busy severe weather week
for West Central Texas. <br>
<b><br>
</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span><b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa11.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR6:</span>
Ted Ryan WFO Fort Worth (FWD)
<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Lightning
from developing storm along an old outflow boundary taken June 6, 2005,
near Haskell, TX.<br>
<b><br>
</b><br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa12.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR5:</span> Mike
Staudenmaier -- WFO Flagstaff<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Cathedral
Rock in Sedona AZ
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<br>
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<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa13.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR8: </span>Wade Earle<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Location: </span>Taken from Cabbage Hill along Interstate 84 just
southeast of Pendleton, Oregon. A generally&nbsp; dry thunderstorm was
making its way across portions of the Columbia Basin.<br>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><img
style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa21.gif"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Entry PR3: </span>Paul Stanko,
WFO Guam<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Location:&nbsp; </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><strong
style="font-weight: normal;">Surf along the south side of Orote Point,
Guam in Nov 2006
while receiving the fetch from Typhoon Dale.&nbsp;&nbsp; Estimated surf
height to be between 60-80 ft as the hill to the right (as judged from
a topo map) was a little over 100ft at that point. </strong><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
</span><br>
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<h2>Extra Photos <br>
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<br>
<br>
<b><img style="width: 501px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa14.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR8:</span> Eric A.
Helgeson
Rapid City SD<b><br>
Location:</b> Roughlock Falls in Spearfish Canyon, SD after several
inches of rain in the northern Black Hills
<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa15.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR10:</span> Brett
McDonald&nbsp;&nbsp; RIW Riverton Wyoming<b><br>
Location:</b> Teton Mountains in background with Bison<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa16.gif"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Entry CR21:</span> Joseph Nield WFO
IND
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location: </span>Two tornadoes in
Thayer County, Nebraska on May 24, 2004. <br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa17.gif"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Entry CR22:</span> Mike Umscheid, NWS
Dodge City
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location: </span>Taken in September
2006 in Grand Teton National Park, I<span
style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>was out photographing in the
park early in the morning in mid-September<span
style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>and as the fog was beginning
to lift, a brilliant fogbow made a<span style="font-family: monospace;">
</span>presence, and I just so happened to have a view of Grand Teton
as a<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>backdrop.<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa18.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER3:</span> Tom Mazza
RLX Charleston WV<br>
<b>Location:</b> Lake Side Park<br>
<br>
<b><br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa19.gif"></b><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER8:</span> Anita
Silverman
Blacksburg VA<b><br>
Location:</b> Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, taken
by me in January 2005.
<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa20.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER10:</span> John
Rozbicki WFO BUF<b>
<br>
Location:</b> Fillmore Glen State Park, Moravia, NY<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa22.gif"><br>
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<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR3:</span> Walter L.
Snell&nbsp;
Senior Forecaster&nbsp;
WFO San Juan, Puerto Rico
<br>
<b>Location:</b> Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles south of the
Tropic of Cancer.&nbsp; From the Highway 957 bridge over the Canovanas
River upstream from the river gage (not visible). It was taken in June
of 2007 when the Flamboyan trees bloom with their bright orange
petals.&nbsp; This is a low water and fair weather day.&nbsp; When this
river floods the bridge is covered and the park to the left may be
inundated with over a foot of water.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
<img style="width: 501px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa23.gif"><br>
</span><b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR5:</span>
Ted Ryan<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>WFO Fort Worth
(FWD)
<br>
<b>Location:</b> Sunset over the Coastal Plains taken in Corpus Christi
TX<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Dec 28, 2000.<span
style="font-weight: bold;">
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</span><b><br>
</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa24.gif"><br>
</span><b>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR10:</span> Bert Gordon
SJU Puerto Rico<br>
<b>Location:</b> Flamenco Beach on the small island of Culebra,
PR<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa25.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR13:</span> Ed
Tirado&nbsp; SJU Puerto Rico<br>
<b>Location:</b> Mouth of Rio Guayanes in Yabucoa. View from mouth of
river on southeast coast
of mainland Puerto Rico.<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa26.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR2:</span> Steve
Anderson
-- Monterey<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Rural
road near Monterey, California (January, 2007)<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa27.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR3: </span>Suzanne
Anderson
-- Monterey<br>
<b>Location:</b><span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>near
Death Valley, California (October, 2005)<br>
<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa28.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR10: </span>Roger S.
Cloutier, Senior Forecaster at NWS
WFO Pendleton, OR.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Location: </span>Taken in front of the NWS PDT office as a
thunderstorm cell developed nearby. The photo was taken
at 6:18 PM PST, March 10, 2006.&nbsp; Since it was still winter, this
CB
cloud did not produce that much lightning, however it did produce an
interesting mushroom cloud shape with a rain/snow mix precipitation
shaft under the cloud base.&nbsp; This image shows NWS WFO PDT's
typical atmospheric
instability that develops in the late winter and early spring when low
pressure systems aloft with a cold pool aloft moves into the region,
however, it is unusual for a cloud to be this well defined so early in
the convective season in this climate. The building in the background
is the Army National Guard building just down the street from the WFO
office, and the airport runway is behind it. This cloud did become a
concern for local aviation including commercial aircraft landing or
taking off.<br>
<br>
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<b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa40.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR12: </span>Shawn Weagle<span
style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>HAS Forecaster<span
style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>NOAA/NWS Northwest River
Forecast Center<span style="font-family: monospace;"> </span>Portland,
Oregon
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
Location: </span>Bryce Canyon, Utah during a monsoon&nbsp;<span
style="font-family: monospace;"></span>thunderstorm in July 2004.<br>
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<h2>Developer's Choice<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa29.gif"><b><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR4:</span> Sam Beckman<br>
<b>Location:</b> On Highway
28 south of Lander near South Pass, looking back at Red Canyon in
Central Wyoming.<br>
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<b><img style="width: 504px; height: 379px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa30.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR5:</span> Brenda Brock,
NWS Des Moines<br>
<b>Location:</b> Radar in the middle&nbsp; ... taken in
January 2007<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa31.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR14:</span> Don
Rolfson, Marquette, MI
MQT<b><br>
Location:</b> Presque Isle Park. Marquette, MI. February 2006.<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa32.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR16:</span> Mary-Beth
Schreck WFO Wichita, KS<b><br>
Location:</b> La Crosse, WI during a valley fog event in September,
2006.<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa33.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CR17:</span> Mary-Beth
Schreck WFO Wichita, KS<b><br>
Location:</b> Amish country near Cashton, WI, southeast of La Crosse.
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa34.gif"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Entry CR19:</span> Kevin E. Smith
Meteorologist - NWS/WFO PAH (Paducah, Kentucky) <br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location: </span>Taken on 10/29/05 at
853 am CDT.&nbsp; The picture shows river fog on the Kentucky side of
the Ohio River (facing Paducah, KY) next to the Interstate 24 River
bridge connecting southern Illinois to western KY.<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa35.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ER7:</span> Mark Bloomer
RLX
Charleston WV<br>
<b>Location:</b> Caribou, ME snow storm<b><br>
<br>
</b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa36.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR1:</span> Corey Pieper
-- El Paso<br>
<b>Location:</b> East Side of the Franklin mountains (which pass into
El Paso proper). This photo was taken on Trans Mountain Road. Photo is
taken pointing east, towards the NE side of town.<br>
<b>Date:</b> Around an inch of snow fell across El Paso, including the
Franklin Mountains along Trans Mountain Road on January 2, 2007<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><b><br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa37.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR7:</span>
Bobby Boyd
Meteorologist
National Weather Service Nashville, TN
OHX<br>
<b>Location:</b> Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa44.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SR12:</span> Althea
Austin-Smith&nbsp; SJU Puerto Rico<br>
<b>Location:</b> Rio Grande de Anasco, Puerto Rico.&nbsp; Tributary
feeding into the Rio Grande de Anasco River<br>
<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa39.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR7: </span>Duane
Dykema -- Monterey<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Location: </span>Along highway 50 in western Utah Title: Smoke From a
Wildfire Colors the Evening Landscape Near the
Utah-Nevada Border<br>
<br>
<br>
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<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa41.gif"><br>
<b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR14: </span>Eric Kurth
NWS Sacramento CA<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
Location: </span>Lenticular clouds&nbsp;above the Sierra Nevada
Mountains at Desolation
Wildnerness in California, with a partially frozen Loon Lake in the
foreground, taken on March 31, 2007.<br>
<br>
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<b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa42.gif"><br>
<br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR17: </span>Don Moore
Billings Montana BYZ<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
Location:</span>
Billings, MT 16 December 2005 snowflake.&nbsp; Atmospheric conditions
were
perfect for growing beautiful, low density, snowflakes, which grew in
good ascent,&nbsp; instability, and temperatures between -12C and -18C.
&nbsp;
This is actually 3 separate pictures merged into one.&nbsp; Taken with
a digital camera and weak microscope.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa38.gif"><br>
</span><b>Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR19: </span>Jerome
Saucier, HMT
WFO Great Falls Montana
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
Location: </span>Taken at 4:05 AM MDT north east of WFO Great Falls
Montana.
Noctilucent Clouds
Observed July 13/14, 2006
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<b><img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt=""
src="images/SSa43.gif"><br>
Entry</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WR21: </span>
Carolyn Willis, HMT/CPM Billings, Montana<span
style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
Location: </span>Near Mystic Lake, Montana<br>
<br>
<img style="width: 500px; height: 375px;" alt="" src="images/SSa45.gif"><br>
<br>
The GSD gang and Flatirons<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location:</span> Boulder, CO<br>
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